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Firelight is the light that comes from a fire itself — the warm, moving orange glow on people's faces and on the walls. It is not a lamp and not a . You get firelight from a or a fireplace; people sometimes stretch it to , though the tidy meaning is a real wood or coal fire. Writers like the word because firelight feels close and old, the opposite of bright white electric light. It changes every second: one moment a face is gold, the next it is in shadow. There is not a lot of it, so rooms in firelight look small and soft.
火光
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
firelightnoun/ˈfaɪə.laɪt/
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The light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.
- He sat on by the cheerful firelight thrown from a bundle of green ash-sticks laid across the dogs; the sticks snapped pleasantly, and hissed out bubbles of sap from their ends.
- He glanced continually at the diamond-panes of the casement, gleaming dimly in the firelight, and cocked his ear toward the door, as if half expecting to hear the pad of furtive feet in the corridor without.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。